Add and Mount LVM Volume in Linux

Its possible add a LVM volume on the fly. The steps would involve formatting the newly added disk with LVM and creating a mount point and adding the new volume to it. The whole process would involve creating Physical Volume followed by Volume group and then assigning logical volume and mounting it to a mount point.

After adding the disk either through VMWare vSphere Client Interface or physically adding it, 1st need to create a Physical Volume and format it using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Linux.Run this command to check if the newly added disk is visible/detect to OS.